Wood River PACKRAFTING Expedition
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The best trip we'll never do again. A tale of adventure.The plan was to accomplish the first descent of the remote Wood River in British Columbia by hiking 24km from Sunwapta Falls into its headwaters at Fortress Lake, paddling 15km across the lake, 30 km down the river (excluding 2 major class VI waterfall filled canyons) then ascending back up 3500 ft in 37 km to the continental divide though Athabasca pass, crossing into Alberta again and navigating the Whirlpool River the remaining 80 km back to the Icefield Parkway. As it turns out there is a reason no one has ever done this before. But in the end we completed this 5 day trip in a mere 11 days :).
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Love this. Crazy undertaking that went so real and wrong but became so right because cool heads and true teamwork prevailed!! Thanks for documenting a real expedition
Glad you enjoyed it!!
This is easily the gnarliest packrafting video I’ve seen. The very definition of adventure. Nice work guys!
Thanks! Not something we will forget anytime soon.
Happy I found this. I actually came across the story written on a website and half way through it wanted me to become a member to see more and I wasnt able to finish the story until now.
Which website is that?
Wow that was crazy trip! Amaizing how calm you were able to be on video!😆
Yeah we learned a lot on this trip 😁.
The athabasca pass trail west side was maintained in september 2022 by the Alpine Club of Canada - Columbia Mountains section.
That's great to know. Thanks!
Wow!! What an adventure! Glad you both got through it OK, definitely some thing to tell the kids!!
Thanks. Yeah definitely a learning experience :).
This was a crazy trip. I have been to to outlet from Fortress and went down the river a few hundred yards. The Woods river is insane. Nice both of you survived. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, this was our first big trip; way back in 2015. We're learned a lot since then 😀.
That looks like an amazing route! Great scenery, too =)
It was indeed. The best trip will never do again 😂.
You floated down the Whirlpool River, as planned? How did you patch those slashes in the Packrafts? Kudos to you guys, wow.
Yep, sure did. Everything after Athabasca Pass is the Whirlpool RIver. We used Tyvek Tape for the field repairs and I send mine into Kokopelli to weld it after.
Looks like you had an epic. Gnarly canyons indeed. Nice edit. Shot on a GoPro?
It was indeed. We've learned a lot since then. Edit was by "Backcountry Professor." And yep, on my old first gen GoPro Hero.
I couldn't tell from the video, but did you cross athabasca pass and float out on the whirlpool, or just continue downstream on the wood?
We hiked up Athabasca pass and floated down the Whirlpool River.
Wow , that was crazy , what time of year did you do the trip?
It was mid-July. But we had a ton of rain that trip.
Its not that there in no packrafters in Alberta, its that there is no packrafters that want near death experiences...so yeah, might have trouble finding a community of those. lol.
Haha this was my first real trip, in 2015. So their really wasn’t any packrafters back then. But I’ve learned a lot since then an avoid the near death experiences now 😄.